Solved Win 11 Custom Live Folders?

I'm trying to change my stock folders to another style Pry Frente to be exact.
I extracted all icons from shell32.dll and made entries in:
HLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Icons\
For every icon where i saw the default folder: 4,5,264 and 319.
And 16772 for the folder with some paper in it.

I suppose i need to clear icon cache or reboot for the fixes to take effect.

On Win 10 i made my own "Live folder", but i don't remeber what i did exacly, since i threw everything i could think of at it until it worked.
So i kinda overdid it and changed the icons inside windows dll's: Imageres, shell32, etc...
It worked but i broke windows update... And i want to do it right this time..

How do i change the "Live Folders"?
The ones that are generates and look like this:


Can't find then in Shell32.dll... I think i remeber that you could change them with /Shell Icons/ but i don't remember. :/
Worst case i'll have to chage them induvidally but its way better to change the icons that are used when building the custom ones, so i don't have to change every single icon just to get darkmode in explorer.

I love how neaT to got "My computer". But it just looks bad with yellow folders...





Edit: Seems like i need to change imageres.dll icons.
I suppose to do that i need to change imageres.dll.mun inside C:\Windows\SystemResources then...

This Rabbit hole is familiar. Lol

Update!
This is her now:

I got some issues with the notempty folder icon, i thought i had saved the *.ico wrong or something, for some reason, when windows Auto uses "imageres.dll,162" the transparancy doesn't want to work, and the egde look aliased. :/

AMD folder is customized, using same icon in the same file as Användare(Users), the transparancy only works if i apply it manually?
Also can you get rid of the light gray background that gets added when windows generate it's own custom minatures from the live folders and content images?. (Like the Battlefield2042/dx/hydra/ny mapp/program/windows folders)

I'll probably change the nonempy folder for one below, i just had to chage it a lot to see if it really changed, had the same transparancy problem with the rest of theese:

Nice how did you do that?

Wow ! I'm trying for hours to do EXACTLY what you did.
How did you do it ??? Im willing to pay for the files / tutorial

Hi guys... New here but I finally found what went wrong mostly all of the time when we want our own icons for live folders.

If you want your own customized folder be still looked like the original special folder like these.
you will have the following softwares needed:

-Customizer God [totally free]
-Photoshop
-icofx
-stardock's Iconpackager



Step 1. Open Customizer god and navigate to "General Icons Tab" and individually export resources the following icon ID# 3, 5, 6 and 162 to your preferred location.


3. Install and open icofx and open the exported ico file.

Select the topmost icon thumbnail and press "Ctrl+A". then Create new file as Image with 256x256 dimensions and paste your copied image and save as png file.

4. Open the png file in photoshop. and create your own design based on the placement of the folder and "save as" to png file.
note: Make sure to toggle off the guide layer upon saving your image to enable the transparency when converting to icon.

In my case I made my customized folder icon to red. those are still pngs and named them to the icons that they will be replacing.

#5 is the back folder of the live icon and #6 will be the overlay. #162 will be my generic filled folders and the last one will be my Generic empty/New Folder icon.

5. Individually import/open them to icofx. and Select Create a Windows icon from image.



6.This is the most important step. On the side panel select the non 32bit image layer and delete them.
*Delete those layers encircled*

and Save as ico file[Window icon file]

7. Open IconPackager and load your customed icon accordingly.

>> Customize >>Folders >> Select icons>>Change icons.. then apply
..


Thats all.. hopefully these mystery been answered .. :)

Hi @Luxor @Dallebull
Nice job.
a blue version made a while ago, is also available :